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Cowgirl Cuisine: Rustic Recipes and Cowgirl Adventures from a Texas Ranch

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I picked this book up on a whim and read it cover to cover over the weekend. I think the author is pretty upfront that she's a city girl transplant to Texas finding her way into Western cuisine. I think her recipes offer a unique blend of traditional favorites made better with her big city touches.I followed several of her recipes and they all came out beautifully and were more than tasty.

This book makes a terrific gift for anyone who likes a wonderful narrative along with good food. It's lovely enough for coffee table/kitchen book but useful for making good fresh food.

I just love this cookbook! The recipes are simple and straight forward...any home cook can make them with little effort and the results are sure to get raves. I've already made the Canyon Granola and it's super. The fun stories personalize Paula's true love for the Texas Hill Country and the sexy photographs made even my husband page through the book with interest! Great job. I plan to give copies to all my Texas Hill Country friends.

I am a native New Yorker who has been a Texas resident for 16 years. My new daughter-in-law is a native Texan who has inherited a working ranch. This book was a perfect gift for her. The recipes are awesome, the pictures are fantastic and the personal stories were great. I loved it because the book and the author were cosmopolitan, contemporary, earthy and promoted being sustainale. Boots, belt buckles, denim, diamonds, high heels and great food - a combination that works for me!

Now this is a cookbook!!!! You feel like you really know this gal. I haven't any other cookbook like it in my collection. Very down to earth and shows her quirky sense of humor. Recipes are delicious and something different than the "meat and potatoes" usual in my kitchen. I have already ordered several to give as gifts.

I was born and raised in the Kansas heartland. I lived for 30+ years in Texas before moving back home to live on the Kansas prairie. I got excited over the reviews and possibilities I envisioned coming from this so called cookbook. Boy, was I disappointed. My first (and Very correct) impression right off the bat was.. "Where does this girl come from? New York City?" and guess what!

Yep, this girl is from New York. Everyone knows most New Yorkers don't know squat about picante sauce let alone cowgirl cooking. Just because you put a Western sounding handle on the receipe doesn't make it worthy chuck. The receipes sound like food you'd find on a high priced Dude Ranch.

It might make for cute reading, but if you're serious about Western ranch, trail or farm cooking then look elsewhere for REAL receipes. No cowboy in his right mind wants food with the ingredients in this book.

Ask any working Western man or woman and they'll tell you that they want "meat & taters" or other fare that they can sink their teeth into and do a hard day's work on. No cowgirl worth her salt cooks like this! The bright colored photos and cute tidbit stories make it an attractive looking book, but as a cookbook it's a disappointment as Big As Texas!

I picked up this book after a review in Rachel Ray's magazine. To be honest, this book didn't thrill me. The recipes contained many hard to find ingredients and seemed a bit frou frou to me.

I enjoyed some of the pictures, but found the pictures of people to be a little much. When I read cookbooks I'd rather have pictures of food. I did think the dog photo was cute, 'tho.

I found this book to be merely ok. I was surprised I didn't like it more.

Disbrowe's new title is well laid-out, beautifully illustrated, a highly engaging read and, best of all, the recipes are as tasty as they are accessible to the casual adventurer in the kitchen. Take it from me. I lived outside the USA for over twenty years, and have eaten and cooked my way around the globe more times than I would want to recall. Who would have guessed that the best in food awaited all the while in the Texas Hill Country?

Timely shipping and book is in perfect condition. My first Amazon experience-I will definitely order again.

I love the authentic, real-life stories, and the recipes are a super collection of easy to more detailed ingredients and steps.

Yes, this lady knows Texas and its love of food.

The recipes required a lot of ingredients that should never be in 'cowboy cooking.' There were a crazy amount of recipes that required tofu of all things. It was clear that the author is merely a transplanted New Yorker who holds strongly to her French trained recipes and cooking methods. This food is not cowboy nor is it close to Texan, southern or western cuisine. The only thing more offensive than the recipes were the dozens of photos of the author, clearly a middle aged woman, wearing teenagers' clothing. Old mutton dressed up like spring lamb. Disturbing and completely unflattering to her and the food.